Bug 1717384

Summary:	setup: Please take ownership of /etc/nsswitch.conf
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Pavel Zhukov <pzhukov>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	codonell, fedoraproject, mcatanza, ovasik, pbrezina, pknirsch, yaneti
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Description Florian Weimer 2019-06-05 11:36:38 UTC

glibc currently provides /etc/nsswitch.conf, but the file does not really belong there because it's being automatically patched by the distribution all over the place, similar to /etc/group and other NSS-related files under /etc.

In addition, Fedora ships packages such as autofs and sudo which parse /etc/nsswitch.conf directly and add support for things not in the NSS database.

I think the setup package would be a more natural location for this file.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:08:12 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 19:03:00 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2020-02-11 15:40:13 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 32 development cycle.
Changing version to 32.

Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2020-04-15 16:04:26 UTC

It could also potentially move to authselect. Maybe the setup package would be better, though. Not sure.

Comment 5 Pavel Březina 2020-04-21 09:30:15 UTC

We planned to own nsswitch.conf at some point but no steps were done in this direction so far as we were waiting for authselect to become stable and well adopted. But I think it make more sense to include it in setup package.

Comment 7 Florian Weimer 2021-11-16 13:08:41 UTC

Ownership will be taken by authselect instead.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2023741 ***